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JACQUES DAVIDOVICI
Jacques Davidovici began playing the piano at the age of 7. He has studied at
the Schola Cantorum where he was awarded the Harmony prize, trained with the
Argentinian composer José-Luis Campana, and received 1st Prize for musical
scoring while at the Ecole Normale de Musique.
After a successful period composing music for television commercials he joined, for
a short while, the select group of composers creating television soundtracks with
such memorable airs as : Y en a qu’une c’est la Une or La 25ème Heure.
After allowing himself a short detour towards pop music composing and arranging
the hit single Un soir de pluie with Blues Trottoir the time had come for Davidovici to
finally undertake his life-long dream: composing musical scores for feature films.
His work on Les Fables Géométriques (La Fontaine’s fables in music and in 3D) was
awarded with the Musical Illustration Prize at the festival Paris Cités. Insektors, an
animated series produced by Canal+ in which the characters interact with his
music, was attributed an Emmy Award.
Since then, Jacques Davidovici has composed the soundtracks for more than
fourty films. Although he has composed in quite a wide range of styles, passing
from Klezmer in Patrick Braoudé’s Nine Months to Ambient music with a trip hop
feel for François Ruggieri’s Hygiène de l’Assassin, he still has a fondness for
symphonic orchestrations. But it is most likely the « french school » sound in his
music that has caught the attention of talented and renowned foreign filmmakers
such as Abdellatif ben Ammar or Steven Soderbergh...
Recent films : 48 heures par jour (Catherine Castel), Iznogoud (Patrick Braoudé),
Le Démon de Midi (Marie Pascale Osterrieth), Zone Libre (Christophe Malavoy)